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Exile and marginality, network availability, mass- versus subcultural identities, privilege, opting (versus dropping) out – these are elements this issue takes on. The fading of bohemia’s appeal is no doubt linked in part to a growing preference for the web’s promise of total-connectivity. Though could another factor be at work here too: an underlying sense that perhaps the real displacement and disenfranchisement after which romantic notions of “bohemia” were later formed may again be a very real threat?

Perhaps no show this fall was as despised as Richard Prince’s “New Portraits” at Gagosian, New York. Of course, a presentation that elicits such a response is only to be expected of this particular American artist, and no less so given that he based this series on Instagram posts that he had commented on and liked. Written off by many as flat-footedly exploitative, a pat Warholian gag, this work only further proves the vacuity, some say, of the famed ...

It doesn’t have to be so nice, that’s the bottom line. In Sarah Schulman’s The Gentrification of the Mind, a psychic and material double bind is articulated – she speaks of the multiple ways in which gentrification produces subjectivity, and its normalising impact on desire. It’s a personal memoir and rant, ...

TEXTE ZUR KUNST stands for controversial discussions and contributions by internationally leading writers on contemporary art and culture. Alongside ground-breaking essays, the quarterly magazine – which was founded in Cologne in 1990 by Stefan Germer (†) and Isabelle Graw and has been published, since 2000, in Berlin – offers interviews,roundtable discussions, and comprehensive reviews on art, film, music,the market, fashion, art history, theory, and cultural politics. Since 2006, the journal's entire main section has been published in both German and English. Additionally, each issue features exclusive editions by internationally renowned artists, who generously support the magazine by producing a unique series.